PREJUDICE OVERCOME. 



family likeness between the sitting " puss '' of the willow and 

 the common crawler of the cabbage. 



These were steps of progression ; and we have now brought 

 her or, perhaps we should say more generously, she has 

 brought herself to look with complacency on our insect 

 menagerie nay, what is more, has brought her fingers to 

 bring us, and with a smile of triumph, what she (poor soul), 

 in spite of all our schooling, takes for something new albeit, 

 perhaps, a caterpillar from a cauliflower, or a cockroach from 

 the kitchen. She even looks with a reconciled eye upon our 

 pet stag-beetle. 



Apropos of this Goliath of British Coleopteri. Though 

 reputed to live on sap, wo have never, during the six weeks of 

 his captivity, seen him extract it from leaf or branch by pres- 

 sure of his pinching jaws. His preferred and chosen fare is 

 tlic syrup from sugared bread, and the only leaves he cares for 

 are those of which the surface is bespread with honey-dew. 

 He seems, in short, to dispense gladly with all labour incidental 

 by nature to procurement of food, and, provided always that 

 he be defended from the unwelcome intrusion (by a leafy 

 canopy) of daylight, seldom evinces restlessness, not even of an 

 evening, his time when at liberty for taking wing. 



On two occasions only lias he shown impatience under con- 

 finement, and these have been previous to and during thunder- 

 storms, when atmospheric influence has urged to the most 

 energetic efforts at escape. 



